Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.