A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.