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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

The Jew is not the one who has been born into the faith, but the one who has learned to respect and understand it.

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.