There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.

Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong."

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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