To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.