The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.