Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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 in prostitution.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.