If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

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.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.