A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man - Arthur Schopenhauer

"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible"

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

"One should use common words to say uncommon things"

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

"They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."