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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

There are things you would love to hear but will never hear fromthe person you want to hear them from, but don't be deaf to the personwho says it with his heart.

There are now more practicing vegans than practicing Roman Catholics in the UK. (In the book Vegetarian America).

Sanskrit is more perfect than Latin, more copious than Greek and more exquisitely refined than either.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.

The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.

The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid.