“Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.”

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.

The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

Her thoughts are poetry, sheer beauty to behold, pay attention when she gives you a glimpse.

In all of this chaos and madness, I found beauty.

When beauty resides within, you begin to see it in everything.

I think autumn can teach a lot about love. About how much beauty can be hidden in layers of change.

How beautiful she is to have tears as unapologetic as the rain.

There is a story to tell in even the mundane, and beauty in the most unsuspecting.

She’s beautiful, yes, but dangerous remember – there is a difference between admiring the fire and putting your hand in the flame.

You have always been this beautiful long before they came and noticed.