To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

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