There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.