It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms