Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.