I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.