I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for these occurrences does not rest with Providence.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for kindly behaviour, the results may be needlessly unfortunate. That is why it is important to show that no supernatural reasons are needed to make [people] kind and to prove that only through kindness can the human race achieve happiness.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

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.

Worry is a form of fear.