So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the destruction of Germany. A month ago Europe was a peaceful comity of nations; if an Englishman killed a German, he was hanged. Now, if an Englishman kills a German, or if a German kills an Englishman, he is a patriot, who has deserved well of his country.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.