What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.