Time spent with cats is never wasted.
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.
It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity
There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.
So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
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