The Chicken Did Not Cross The Road.

It Is Certainly True That Principles Cannot Be More Securely Founded Than On Experience And Consciously Clear Thinking.

I Received Your Letter Of June 10th. I Have Never Talked To A Jesuit Priest In My Life And I Am Astonished By The Audacity To Tell Such Lies About Me. From The Viewpoint Of A Jesuit Priest I Am, Of Course, And Have Always Been An Atheist.

A Religious Person Is Devout In The Sense That He Has No Doubt About The Significance Of Those Superpersonal Objects And Goals Which Neither Require Nor Are Capable Of Rational Foundation

I Recently Discussed With An Intelligent And Well-disposed Man The Threat Of Another War, Which In My Opinion Would Seriously Endanger The Existence Of Mankind, And I Remarked That Only A Supranational Organization Would Offer Protection From That Danger. Thereupon My Visitor, Very Calmly And Coolly, Said To Me: "why Are You So Deeply Opposed To The Disappearance Of The Human Race?".

It Is Little Short Of A Miracle That Modern Methods Of Instruction Have Not Already Completely Strangled The Holy Curiosity Of Inquiry.... I Believe That One Could Even Deprive A Healthy Beast Of Prey Of Its Voraciousness If One Could Force It With A Whip To Eat Continuously Whether It Were Hungry Or Not.