If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly of the same nature as the Hindu's view, that the world rested upon an elephant and the elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when they said, "How about the tortoise?" the Indian said, "Suppose we change the subject."
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted.
Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.