The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.