Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favourable and unfavourable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, resul…

Man is a rational animal - so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I…

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Not enough evidence, God, not enough evidence.

I sat reading in these chairs and felt somehow, in an abstract rather than a religious way, that suffering shapes you. Not only my own religious thought, but t…