To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be ov….

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain..

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]..

People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. N….

By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to r….

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth..

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted..

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a ….

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to ….

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth..

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public….

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness..

What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he….

There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it….

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it..

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Ch….

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles..

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the ….

Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?.

There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanti….

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 garden….