I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle