Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.