Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Four things come not back — the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.
If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.