The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

The more you complain the longer God lets you live

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels; these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.