You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
Voltaire was not the first or last man to convert a prison into a hall of fame. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
I am an agnostic as to the question of God.
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater possibilities and grander heights.
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey.
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
Valiantly he fought on every intellectual battlefield.
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. Everyone is an agnostic as to the beliefs or creeds they do not accept.
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
