Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had ...and will belong to science.

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.