Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good..

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyon….

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to di….

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading..

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats..

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged..

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms..

The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, ….

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia..

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel..

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting..

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging..

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it….

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and wha….

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think..

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation..

I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to pu….

Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue….

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong..

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactor….

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work..