What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Man created God in his own image.

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life.

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

I find no abhorring in my appetite.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.