As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

All that is not God is death.

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.

Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.

To change what you get you must change who you are.