Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.