“St. Paul understood what most Christians never realize, namely, that the Gospel of Christ is not a religion, but religion itself in its most universal and deepest significance.”

from Outspoken Essays

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“The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.”

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“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”

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“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.”

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“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”

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“A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.”

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“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.”

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“The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.”

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“Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.”

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“On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”

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“Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.”

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“What is a socialist? One who has yearnings to share equal profits from unequal earnings.”

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“In the spring a young man’s fancy turns … pretty fancy.”

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“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.”

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“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”

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“There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.”

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“To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.”

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“Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.”

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“Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.”

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“Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.”

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“We had made a religion of our belief in progress—a baseless dream—but because we had made a religion of it, our disappointment has shaken our faith.”

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“God reveals himself in history; history is the judgment of the world”

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“Religious fanaticism, unlimited competition, and war are the murderers of freedom. Though they win victories, we now know that they end in suicide.”

from The Modern Churchman

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“either under Persian influence or by a parallel development Judaism came to believe in a future life, a resurrection, a last judgment, heaven and hell, a cosmic duel between right and darkness, and a divine Savior. A cynic might even say that we owe more to Zarathustra than to Moses.”

from Sermon (1950)

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“At the Reformation the composite elements flew apart... The Catholic became two-thirds pagan; the Protestant, at least in England, two-thirds Jew.”

from Sermon (1950)

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“Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.”

from Outspoken Essays

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“Race and nationality are catchwords for which rulers find that their subjects are willing to fight, as they fought for what they called religion 400 years ago.”

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“Miracle is the bastard child of faith and reason, which neither parent can afford to own.”

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“The effects of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, nd would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and farmyard civilization of the Fabians.”

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“Civilization is a disease almost invariably fatal unless checked in time.”

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