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| The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature. | | Birth Control | |
| The completely untravelled person will view all foreigners as the savage regards the members of another herd. But the man who has travelled, or who has studied international politics, will have discovered that, if he had to prosper, it must, to some | | Uncategorized | |
| The conception of purpose is a natural one to apply to a human artificer. A man who desires a house cannot, except in the Arabian Nights, have it rise before him as a result of his mere wish; time and labor must be expended before his wish can be gra | | Uncategorized | |
| The conscientious Radical is faced with great difficulties. He knows that he can increase his popularity by being false to his creed, and appealing to hatreds that have nothing to do with the reforms in which he believes | | Uncategorized | |
| The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. | | Uncategorized | |
| The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. | | Emotion | |
| The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice | | Uncategorized | |
| The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, eI was a solitary, shy, priggish youth. I had no experience of the social pleasures of boyhood and did not miss them. But I liked mathematics, and mathematics was suspect because it has n | | Uncategorized | |
| The difference between mind and brain is not a difference of quality, but a difference of arrangement. It is like the difference between arranging people in geographical order or in alphabetical order, both of which are done in the post office direct | | Mind | |
| The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. | | Uncategorized | |
| The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. | | Uncategorized | |
| The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible | | Opinions | |
| The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed | | Uncategorized | |
| The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. | | Uncategorized | |
| The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences | | Christianity | |
| The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them | | Family | |
| The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge | | Life | |
| The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good. | | Life | |
| The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution | | Challenge | |
| The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. | | Uncategorized | |
