If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.