We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.