There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.