Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.