Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.