To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.