The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.