I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

People in this world are not often logical.

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.