There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he….

The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter ….

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common de….

Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands..

Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine….

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads..

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense..

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her..

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life ap….

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thi….

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; ….

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and subm….

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries..

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives..

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it..

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory….

There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the l….

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter..

Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body o….

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog..

The best client is a scared millionaire..