I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

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

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.