We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.