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.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

I do so hate to leave this world.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.