What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

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.

The wonder of words.

Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.

Whenever you want to marry someone go have lunch with his ex-wife.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.

There is nothing we cannot do if we harness the power within us.