Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.