Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.
The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.
The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice.
Do not feel certain of anything.
Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity.
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.
The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.
In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.