Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.