I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins