This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure...
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible...
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of...
Thought is subversive and revolutionary destructive and terrible Thought is...
The theoretical understanding of the world which is the aim of philosophy...
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an...
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be...
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good...
Man is a credulous animal and must believe something in the absence of good...
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists....
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more...
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do...
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow...
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield...
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the...
I believe in using words not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people...
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to...
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion for every opinion now accepted was...
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity...
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of...
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist since half the sins of...
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts...
In the revolt against idealism the ambiguities of the word experience have...
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors since...
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the...
Men are born ignorant not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death because they are...
The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitive society is that they...
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one...
