Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
