Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.