I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature.

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.