The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.
Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.
Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.
The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
I don’t like the spirit of socialism – I think freedom is the basis of everything.
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
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.
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.