"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

"Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come."

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."