 Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. |
| The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. |
| 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 unfortunate. |
| There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. |
| To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. |
| Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. |
| All movements go too far. |
| A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. |
| Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. |
| No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. |
