This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary.

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.