The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

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

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'