Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions; and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Those who continually search for happiness will never find it. Happiness is made, not found. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
When all experts agree, you need to watch out.
Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.
Philosophy bakes no bread.
The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.
God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
When two great powers disagree about anything – it doesn’t matter what – they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.
I can’t tell whether I am living in a dream or a nightmare.
If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.
Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.
Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.
One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.
I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.
Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.