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

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.