Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.