We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church