Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.