Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.