If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

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

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.