"Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable."
"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."
"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."
"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."