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

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically.

Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.