True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

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