The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.