Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

Only six need be attempted.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love.