Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.