Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.