Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.