“The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.”

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.

A strong egoism is a protection.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.

All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

If you can’t do it, give up!

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Belief clings, but faith lets go.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.