A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

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

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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average.