When a man says he can get on without religion, it merely means he has the kind of religion he can go on without.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

There need not be in religion, or music, or art, or love, or goodness, anything that is against reason; but never while the sun shines will we get great religion, or music, or art, or love, or goodness, without going beyond reason.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.