The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.