Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.