Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

You cannot ‘fit yourself in’ to greatness. This can only be done by embracing and pursuing your biggest dreams and desires.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Why are you looking at me? His eyes search mine for several long seconds before he holds contact and whispers, " Because I like your face.

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.