Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Eternity will not cause our memories to fade, it will force our hearts to accept the past.

The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.

Do what you know needs to be done.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view.

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.