Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
Only six need be attempted.
The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.
The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom.
Change is one thing, progress is another.
Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.
It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.
I feel as if one would only discover on one’s death bed what one ought to have lived for.
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
The saviors of the world, society’s last hope.
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
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 ancestors satisfied in hunting.
Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.