W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Atheism
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
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The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.
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Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
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The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
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I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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