The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.