The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.