There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it..

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible..

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake..

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other..

For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very ….

I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced….

It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness ….

In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser me….

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and wo….

Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then accepted seem to have born fruit in ….

A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with ….