The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

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.

Where are you, oh heart, which I loved from the start? Did you ever arrive? How long must we stay apart?

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

No concept is a carrier of life.

I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.

It is not with low prices-but on the contrary-it is with improved quality we cannot only hold the market, but improve it.

There are very few Japanese Jews. As a result, there is no Japanese word for Alan King.

Cath ate the banana and held on to his gaze. “I’d give you the moon right now,” she said. Levi’s eyes flashed happily, and he hitched up an eyebrow. “Yeah, but would you slay it for me?

Youth deals only in extremes.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.