And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

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.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.