Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

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It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere… Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

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All that’s different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

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Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

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Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

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Be kind to people who are different from you.

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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.

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