Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship.

Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.