Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence..

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon th….

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his ….

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people..

I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, th….

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons..

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English..

In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our plane….

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel..

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; fo….

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air br….

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudic….

If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what ….

If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, s….

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive..

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about..

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], whe….

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a ….

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order….

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!.

It has become a commonplace that aggressiveness also often has its roots in fear. I am inclined to think that this theory has been pushed too far. ….