Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.