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I think that philosophy in most aspects is pretty well useless and hopeless unless it's done with other disciplines. And that's the way I like to do it.

The State is not 'abolished', it withers away.

Great men can't be ruled.

If we think that this search for God is a vain search, and that there is no reality to be discovered, ... then the history of religion becomes a study of the aberrations of the human mind.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

God may be understood to be similar to a lifeguard who sees a drowning child and, although perfectly capable of saving the unfortunate waif, does nothing and lets her drown.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

The sole criteria of frigidity is the absence of the vaginal orgasm.

A lot of people now find belief in God immature, and eventually a lot of people may find realism immature.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of spirit.

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible.

What experience and history teach us is this - that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

Against whom?

Language is a form of human reason and has its reasons which are unknown to man.

Anyone who has had a glimpse of the range and subtlety of the thought of Plato or of a Hegel will long ago have despaired of becoming a philosopher.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

There are two sides to every question.

Nothing can be created from nothing.