Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

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