It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

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

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.