A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.