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For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that...more

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The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfiguring and infi...more

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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

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It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are b...more

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When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that...more

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Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

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Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no ...more

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The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached by chance; for while reason, being impersonal, ma...more

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The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not the man who holds such-and-such views but the man w...more

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The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and work...more

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The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.

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The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant f...more

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The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.

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Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are ...more

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary,destructive ...more