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

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.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

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

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.