A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.

'Let's see if I've got this straight,' he returned. It was a phrase of hers that he had adopted 'It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, and there's this couple lying …

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done anything to advance the common we…

Ne peut-on pas remonter jusqu'a ces anciens scelerats, fondateurs illustres de la superstition et du fanatisme, qui, les premiers, ont pris le couteau sur l'au…

Some of those modern reformers who have placed themselves in strongest opposition to the religions of the past, have been noway behind either churches or sects…