RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

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

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.