Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.