It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.

The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Evil is that which one believes of others.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.