The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Almost all education has a political motive.

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.