The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

There is no nature at an instant.