As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.