Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within the solar system, or with any other portion of space and time. . . . This brings us to a second characteristic of philosophical propositions, namely that they must be a priori. A philosophical proposition must be such as can neither be proved nor disproved by empirical evidence. . . . Philosophy, if what has been said is correct, becomes indistinguishable from logic as that word has now come to be used.

I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.