As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

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

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

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

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.

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

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.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

Is there a magical age when children become parents to their parents?

Only then can I fly.Only then can I be free -when Ilet go of me.

We were not made to eternally weep.

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

I'll take any risk there is.

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

Whenever we begin to feel as if we can no longer go on, HOPE whispers in our ear to remind us that we are strong.