It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick victory. We should not have had either the Nazis or the Communists if that had happened.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.