“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“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“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“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”
Men“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
War“I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.”
God“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
Fear“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
Fear“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“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
Patriotism“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Happiness“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.”
Knowledge“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.”
Good“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“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“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.”
Courage“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”
Change“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.”
Freedom“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.”
Love“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”
Fear“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.”
Science“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”
War