We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Ending is better than mending.

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.