No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer

The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.

An individual human existence should be like a river

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.