I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds..

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed..

Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A rev….

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation..

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, how….

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic..

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken..

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it ….

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life..

I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who love ea….

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtf….

Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example….

I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and ….

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has ….

I can't tell whether I am living in a dream or a nightmare..

Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia….

The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility….

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, ….

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'.

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd..