When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.
Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.
They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.
Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.
They must find it difficult. . . those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood
My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.
Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.