"[F]rom the moral point of view, pain cannot be outweighed by pleasure, and especially not one man's pain by another m…"

"We should realize that from the moral point of view suffering and happiness must not be treated as symmetrical; that …"

"I believe that there is, from the ethical point of view, no symmetry between suffering and happiness, or between pain…"

"From Plato to Karl Marx and beyond, the fundamental problem has always been: who should rule the state? (One of my ma…"

"The answer to this problem is: as implied by Hume, we certainly are not justified in reasoning from an instance to th…"

"For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever asp…"

"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the t…"

"Scientists try to eliminate their false theories, they try to let them die in their stead. The believer—whether anima…"

"If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look…"

"You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which…"