Birth: February 5, 1866 Death: January 7, 1955
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which ….
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics..
I am a rank individualist..
In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state….
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts..
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked..
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as ….
Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution..
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life..
Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable..
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too c….
Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool..
No tribe unites with another of its own free will..
No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth..
The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the ….
Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnest….
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in nee….
A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another..
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful..
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is fo….
I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested….