The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.