There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it [on Goodreads]. - Bertrand Russell

Many agnostics (including myself) are quite as doubtful of the body as they are of the soul, but this is a long story taking one into difficult metaphysics. Mind and matter alike, I should say, are only convenient symbol in discourse, not actually existing things.

Most of us are not neutral in feeling, but, as human beings, we have to remember that, if the issues between East and West are to be decided in any manner that can give any possible satisfaction to anybody, whether Communist or anti-Communist, whether Asian or European or American, whether White or Black, then these issues must not be decided by war. We should wish this to be understood, both in the East and in the West.

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.