Change is one thing, progress is another.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.