We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

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

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...