Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.

Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake