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

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

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

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.