“Sin is geographical.”
“All movements go too far.”
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
“All human activity is prompted by desire.”
“Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“One must care about a world one will not see.”
“What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.”
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“Most people would rather die than think: many do.”
“Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.”
“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”
“Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.”
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”
“Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.”
“Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.”
“Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.”
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
“Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.”
“The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.”
“What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.”
“Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.”
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”
“I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.”
“Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.”
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
“Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.”
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.”
“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”