To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive society.

The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle to happiness in a competitive society.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts deadالخوفُ من الحبِّ يعني الخوفَ من الحياةِ، وأولئكَ الذينَ يخافونَ الحياةَ هم بالفعلِ ثلاثة أرباع موتى!

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

When two things have frequently existed in close temporal contiguity, either comes in time to cause the other.

All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.