The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.