When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.