“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organi...”

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.”

“In the modern world, however, love has another enemy more dangerous than religion, and that is the gospel of work and economic success. It is generally held, especially in America, that a man shoul...”

“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”

“Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.”

“Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.”

“If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.”

“I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.”

“Among the objections to the reality of objects of sense, there is one which is derived from the apparent difference between matter as it appears in physics and things as they appear in sensation. M...”

“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”

“Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as w...”

“Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.”

“Every person has to prepare himself to the point where no place would be burdensome for him. The place may get bored with him, but he will not get bored; he has to get prepared to that extent. Beca...”