Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
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.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
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.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence sh...
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value i...
There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle.
Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them. And the minority that do understand continue to be Moslems because they...
Education should aim at destroying free will so thatpupils thus schooled, will be incapable throughoutthe rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwisethan as their schoolmasters would have wish...