Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Skepticism is history's bedfellow.
A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.
I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.
I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer?