Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.