The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within the solar system, or with any other portion of space and time. . . . This brings us to a second characteristic of philosophical propositions, namely that they must be a priori. A philosophical proposition must be such as can neither be proved nor disproved by empirical evidence. . . . Philosophy, if what has been said is correct, becomes indistinguishable from logic as that word has now come to be used.

A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.