The Truth Of A Theory

For Any One Who Is Pervaded With The Sense Of Causal Law In All That Happens, Who Accepts In Real Earnest The Assumption Of Causality, The Idea Of A Being Who Interferes With The Sequence Of Events In The World Is Absolutely Impossible. Neither The Religion Of Fear Nor The Social-moral Religion Can Have Any Hold On Him.

Political Leaders Or Governments Owe Their Position Partly To Force And Partly To Popular Election. They Cannot Be Regarded As Representative Of Best Elements, Morally Or Intellectually, In Their Respective Nations.

How Can Cosmic Religious Feeling Be Communicated From One Person To Another, If It Can Give Rise To No Definite Notion Of A God And No Theology? In My View, It Is The Most Important Function Of Art And Science To Awaken This Feeling And Keep It Alive In Those Who Are Receptive To It.

The Height Of Stupidity Is Most Clearly Demonstrated By The Individual Who Ridicules Something He Knows Nothing About.

When I Was Young I Found Out That The Big Toe Always Ends Up Making A Hole In A Sock. So I Stopped Wearing Socks.