“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
“Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.”
“Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.”
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
“Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.”
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
“There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.”
“A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.”
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
“To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.”
“The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.”
“No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.”
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.”
“One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.”
“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.”
“It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.”
“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?”
“Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”
“There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.”
“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.”
“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.”
“Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.”
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.”
“We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.”
“Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.”