In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

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

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.