Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.