Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.

A strong egoism is a protection.

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.