More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.