In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those th...
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.
But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshipper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual,...
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, a...
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which o...