Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

Humans are almost always lonely.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.