Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.