HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.