The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration of the Sphinx; and the devotee of nuts by pointing out that hazelnuts and walnuts are as deleterious as other foods and only Brazil nuts should be tolerated. But when I was younger I had not yet acquired this technique, with the result that my contacts with cranks were sometimes alarming.