Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.