The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.