Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.