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Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.
Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...
Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.
It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.
Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.
People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.
You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.
Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.
I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.
I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.
Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it.
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.