Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.