Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.