What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.