Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.