“Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.”

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.

Avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

One finds one’s destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

What we avoid, controls us.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.