Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

God’s first creature, which was light.

Silence is the mother of truth.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

A jug fills drop by drop.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

You just have to have a simple faith.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

What goes up must come down.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

God is everywhere.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.