Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important.

I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.