I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.
Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.
To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. . . . It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.
The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.
Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.