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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.

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Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

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Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

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

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My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

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The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

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I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

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It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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