“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.”
Food“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Happiness“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.”
Food“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“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
Fear“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.”
Work“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
Knowledge“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“Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.”
Power“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“A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.”
Time“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”
Men“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
Good“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“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.”
Time“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“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.”
Power“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“Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.”
Power“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“Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.”
Good“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Fear