The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Plato was a bore.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Man is a universe within himself.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.