Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
All human activity is prompted by desire.
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.
Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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 over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.
Change is one thing, progress is another.
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe, but look only and surely at what are the facts.
Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
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 gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
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