It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.