As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child -- this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.

We know too much and feel too little.

The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.