Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

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.

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.