Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

Almost all education has a political motive.

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.