Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously |
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth |
Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure |
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co |
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible |
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. |
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. |
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. |
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. |
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. |
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. |
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. |
Rules of conduct, whatever they may be are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good |
Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead |
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. |