“Shakespeare had no conscious religion.”

— Bernard Shaw (c.1920) [1]

“Shaw, the great playwright, was a whimsical maverick, who scoffed at religion, lampooned Christianity, and once called himself an atheist; yet had a tinge of mysticism and speculated that a ‘life force’ impels all creatures.”

— James Haught (1996), 2000 Years of Disbelief [1]

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

— Bernard Shaw (1917), Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress (Ѻ)

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.”

— Bernard Shaw (c.1920) (Ѻ)

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— Bernard Shaw (c.1920) (Ѻ); compare: unlearn

“2% of the people think; 3% of the people think they think; and 95% of the people would rather die than think.”

— Bernard Shaw (c.1920) (Ѻ)

“Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whiskey and religion.”

— Bernard Shaw (c.1920) in: The Atheist’s Bible (pg. 13); Angela Jabari tweet (Ѻ)