The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.