understanding Quotes

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

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

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.