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.

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.