Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

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.

Positive thinking will ultimately enable you to live a positive life. So think positively.

All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

I just live my life and try to be present. When I'm present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn't come from me, it's out there.

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.