I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage.

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone