A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity.

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

Almost all education has a political motive.