Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

Philosophy bakes no bread

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.