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

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.