This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.