“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.”
Marriage“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.”
Men“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.”
Marriage“Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”
Fear“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.”
Happiness“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
War“Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.”
Good“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.”
Respect“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.”
Good“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
Work“Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.”
Respect“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
Fear“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
Religion“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
Funny“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.”
Dad“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”
Happiness“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
Funny“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.”
Knowledge“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.”
Time“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
Intelligence“The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.”
Death“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.”
Happiness