If you don't gamble, you'll never win.

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

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

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

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.