What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.