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

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

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

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.