Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

It's coexistence or no existence.