Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain options makes it impossible to earn a living.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.