I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness