Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Value is coextensive with reality.