Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.