 Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. |
| Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. |
| Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. |
| Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. |
| It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. |
| Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. |
| The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. |
| Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. |
| There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. |
| Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. |
| Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. |
| It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. |
| Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. |
| Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. |
| Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. |
| The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. |
| Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. |
| If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. |
| Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. |
| Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. |
