I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

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

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.