If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.