If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

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.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.