To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.