As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms