One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

Love fights with a kiss

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

When you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.