Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.