Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.