Memory demands an image.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.