My view is this: The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Knowledge and love are both indefinitely extensible; therefore, however ... » Go

We must therefore ask ourselves: What sort of thing is it reasonable to believe without proof? I should reply: The facts of sense experience and ... » Go

It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion. “Nobody feels any passion about the multiplication table or about ... » Go

If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes ... » Go

The Ages of Faith, which are praised by our neo-scholastics, were the time when the clergy had things all their own way. Daily life was full of ... » Go

In recent times, the bulk of eminent physicists and a number of eminent biologists have made pronouncements stating that recent advances in science have disproved ... » Go

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts ‘sins’ and others ‘virtue’ on grounds that have nothing to ... » Go

Roughly, science is what we know and philosophy is what we don’t know. ... » Go

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These ... » Go

It is true that the Scholastics invented what professed to be logical arguments proving the existence of God, and that these arguments, or others of ... » Go

I think all the great religions of the world – Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Communism – both untrue and harmful. It is evident as ... » Go

[W]e see, surrounding the narrow raft illumined by the flickering light of human comradeship, the dark ocean on whose rolling waves we toss for a brief hour; ... » Go

If you are quite sure there is a difference between right and wrong, you are then in this situation: Is that difference due to God’s ... » Go

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god ... » Go

Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than ... » Go

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. ... » Go

When one admits that nothing is certain, one must, I think, also add that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is ... » Go

The expression ‘free thought’ is often used as if it meant merely opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy. But this is only a symptom of free thought, frequent, ... » Go

Throughout the last 400 years, during which the growth of science had gradually shown men how to acquire knowledge of the ways of nature and ... » Go

Theology still tries to interfere in medicine where moral issues are supposed to be specially involved, yet over most of the field the battle for the scientific ... » Go

But in the present state of psychology and physiology, belief in immortality can, at any rate, claim no support from science, and such arguments as are possible ... » Go

Are we to infer from this that the world was made by a Creator? Certainly not, if we are to adhere to the cannons of valid ... » Go

In this lies Man’s true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good, to respect only the heaven which ... » Go