As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.