It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.
That when we live no more, We may live ever
Our goal should be to achieve joy.
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
Je tiens à mon imperfection comme à ma raison d'être.
I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.
I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
No one loves the man whom he fears.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
