“The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.”

“In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have discovered an absolute are usually the same people who also pretend to be superior to the rest. To find people in our day attempting to pass off to the world and recommending to others some nostrum of the absolute which they claim to have discovered is merely a sign of the loss of and the need for intellectual and moral certainty, felt by broad sections of the population who are unable to look life in the face.”

“Have you noticed that those who murder in the thousands invariably claim divine favor while those who kill on a far more modest scale, myself included, know in our hearts that God weeps for our sins?”

“One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.”

“Misunderstanding kills the person who claimed it & scratches the mirror of his life & leaves specks on his soul.”

“If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.”