The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.