What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.
Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.