How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.