My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.