It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.
Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.
Beware the man of the single book.
It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.
Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.
To the young I should offer two maxims: Don’t accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.
We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.
Whatever we know without inference is mental.
The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly.
My doctor said to me afterwards, ‘When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.’ I never had a compliment that pleased me more.
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.
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 anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.