More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.