Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.