1. “Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
2. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
3. “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
4. “It is preoccupations with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
5. “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”
6. “Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
7. “Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.”
8. “Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.”
9. “To conquer fear is beginning of wisdom.”
10. “Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
11. “The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.”
12. “Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.”
13. “The only thing will redeem mankind is cooperation.”
14. “Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.”
15. “Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
16. “The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality everyday.”
17. “There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
18. “No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”
19. “The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”
20. “Freedom of opinion can exist only exist when the government thinks itself secure.”
21. “None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
22. “Indignation is a submission of our thoughts , but not of our desires.”
23. “Order, unity and continuity are human inventions, jus t s truly as catalogues and encyclopaedias.”
24. “Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.”
25. “To acquire immunity to eloquence is of utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.”
26. “Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”
27. “Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
28. “Awareness of universals is called conceiving and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.”
29. “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
30. “The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”
