Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn’t know it’s dead.
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.
Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
God is good, there is no devil but fear.
No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.
No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?
You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
God – the John Doe of philosophy and religion.
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.