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

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

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

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 can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.

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