"Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to e…"

"The next stage in the development of a desirable form of sensitiveness is sympathy. There is a purely physical sympat…"

"He was not an ascetic, but he despised luxury and the pursuit of artificial pleasures of the senses."

"The supposed wisdom of proverbs is mainly imaginary. As a rule, proverbs go in pairs which say opposite things. The o…"

"The beliefs appropriate to the impulse of aggression may be seen in Bernhardi, or in the early Mohammedan conquerors,…"

"A book is a friend."

"I do not think it possible to get anywhere if we start from scepticism. We must start from a broad acceptance of what…"

"As we all know, Mr. Russell produces a different system of philosophy every few years..."

"Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater s…"

"Some modern philosophers have gone so far as to say that words should never be confronted with facts but should live …"