If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.

It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!