"We are faced with the paradox that the more we try to avoid suffering, the more we suffer, because our fear of suffering is greater than the suffering itself."

"There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everl…"

"The only way to be happy is to like what you are doing."

"Religion is based primarily upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly as the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disput…"

"The only thing that I strongly feel worthwhile would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world."