The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.