Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
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.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
