With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.