The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.