Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the...
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the...
Dogmatism and skepticism are both in a sense absolute philosophies one is...
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the...
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of...
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will...
Religions which condemn the pleasures of sense drive men to seek the...
Of all forms of caution caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is...
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their...
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and...
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure...
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible...
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of...
Thought is subversive and revolutionary destructive and terrible Thought is...
The theoretical understanding of the world which is the aim of philosophy...
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an...
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be...
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good...
Man is a credulous animal and must believe something in the absence of good...
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists....
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more...
A man growing old becomes a child again.