Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
Theology is Classified Superstition.
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.
A man’s acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Play needs direction as well as work.
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.