War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.