The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.