The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.