Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.