The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attemp….

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact..

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself..

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to m….

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened a….

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable..

At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderd….

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be ….

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago..

I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins….

Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude..

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman..

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more..

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too c….

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is t….

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants..

Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven..

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age..

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice..

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue..

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight..