If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to any one who will take it of me.

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance - that …

M. Comte's philosophy, in practice, might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity.

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the q…

Entendia que ha larga ponderacao de males e bens, e que a arte de viver consiste em tirar o maior bem do maior mal.

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of eith…