The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.