For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.

To fear love is to fear life.

If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.