Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government..

I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly t….

In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the pro….

There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god.….

Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no q….

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give..

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness..

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise..

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself.….

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the go….

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind..

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly….

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise..

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years..

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Those who continually search for happiness will never find it. Happiness is mad….

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, ….

A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using h….

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obs….

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and belief….

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people tramp….

It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants.….