If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.

Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.