All religions are both harmful and untrue.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

What happens when I love, you ask, does the world start making sense? No, my dear, it does not. But it won’t matter to you then.

She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie

People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.

what if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to summer's lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry?

... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.

I don't like singing before noon.

There is so much that people take for granted.