Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

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 soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.