Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.