The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.