When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Philosophy bakes no bread