In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is obvious that simplicity has been a part cause of their discovery, and can, therefore, give no ground for the supposition that other undiscovered laws are equally simple.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

I can't tell whether I am living in a dream or a nightmare.