“I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.”
“It doesn't sound logical to say that a man is an atheist just because he's probably someonewho knows his own God...personally.”
“Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.”
“If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.”
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
“...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process.”