For centuries theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense common honesty and common decency.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty the jury would never hear the evidence.
Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian and at once the world becomes explicable.
Never let your inferiors do you a favor it will be extremely costly.
Puritanism The haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
We must respect the other fellow’s religionbut only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Communism like any other revealed religion is largely made up of prophecies.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
It is the dull man who is always sure and the sure man who is always dull.
This makes me forever ineligible for public office.