There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.