The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the...
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle.
In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.
The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunat...
In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in k...
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human bein...
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignoran...
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.