the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.

a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.

love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.