“Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.”
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.