It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick victory. We should not have had either the Nazis or the Communists if that had happened.

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.