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

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.