Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.