Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.