When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Language was invented to ask questions.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.