The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse..

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, ….

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid pri….

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancest….

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed..

When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic p….

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy..

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words..

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 i….

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence ….

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not t….

One must care about a world one will not see..

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand..

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty..

To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipati….

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the plea….

A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us.

Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration of the Sphinx; and t….

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather t….

When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpki….