“Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.”

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

It is always the secure who are humble.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Fulfillment of Life Is In its Inclusiveness, Not In its Exclusiveness.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thoughts in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.

For weakness cannot persist in a power-evolving universe.

Society should not shape individual human consciousness. Human consciousness should shape society.