Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.