If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People...
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that...
Work is of two kinds: first altering the position of matter at or near the...
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for...
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Both in thought and in feeling even though time be real to realise the...
A truer image of the world I think is obtained by picturing things as...
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries...
Science is what you know philosophy is what you don't know.
Against my will in the course of my travels the belief that everything...
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a...
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation...
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion as organized in its...
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they...
Next to enjoying ourselves the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing...
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power in the same sense in...
The true spirit of delight the exaltation the sense of being more than Man...
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer...
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was...
Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact.
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood and the total amount...
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the...
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the...
Dogmatism and skepticism are both in a sense absolute philosophies one is...
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the...
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of...
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will...
Religions which condemn the pleasures of sense drive men to seek the...
Of all forms of caution caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is...
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their...
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and...
