The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

Change is one thing, progress is another.

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought, and he therefore cannot carry his own reflection to any logical conclusion.

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

The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.