I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.