Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.