A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

Not all men are worthy of love.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.