Whereas you believe in no gods but Iao, he carries this skepticism to its logical conclusion and believes in no gods at all. The difference seems sli… - L. Sprague de Camp

Cold comfort," said Bloch. "Like most oracular verse, full of vague ominous intimations of nothing in particular.

There was no harder-boiled materialist than I; I rejected Marxism as too mystical and not materialistic enough.

For thousands of years, priests and philosophers have told us to love mankind without giving any sound reason for loving the creatures. The mass of them are a lot of cruel, treacherous, hairless apes. They hate us intellectuals, longhairs, highbrows, eggheads, or double-domes, despite—or perhaps because—without us they would still be running naked in the wilderness and turning over flat stones for their meals. Love them? Hah!