 The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. |
| With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. |
| The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. |
| Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. |
| 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. |
| Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. |
| Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. |
| Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. |
| In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. |
| The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. |
| A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. |
| Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. |
| Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. |
| The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. |
| So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. |
| To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. |
| To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. |
| War does not determine who is right - only who is left. |
| 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. |
| I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. |
