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.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
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.
Change is one thing, progress is another.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.
When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you
The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it.
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
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