The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true. Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

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

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.