The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.