We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.