A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you'll become happy, while if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.
Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness. conscience cannot stand much violence.
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Surely some revelation is at hand.
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
The unspeakable visions of the individual.
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.