The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.