Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

What comes, is called.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Heresy makes for progress.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

How lucky I am to lose sleep over such a work of art.

Freedom of action is disguised as a freedom of discipline.

The last day is way shorter than counting to ten.

Ignorance is no excuse-it's the real thing.

Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers.

Let me play a Man in a scene.

Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.

I wanted it to be kind of dreamy and 1920s, when everything is soft-focus.

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.