The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.