Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate sympathetic contemplation" was intellectual, and issued in mathematical knowledge ... To those who have reluctantly learnt a little mathematics in school this may seem strange; but to those who have experienced the intoxicating delight of sudden understanding that mathematics gives, from time to time, to those who love it, the Pythagorean view will seem completely natural.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.