Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.