Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

Beware the man of the single book

In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which [his family] profoundly disapproved. Everytime the subject came up they repeated with unfailing regularity, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." After some fifty or sixty repititions, this remark ceased to amuse me.