“I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.”
“Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...”
“It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears.”
“Fortunately, humans can only hold a certain degree of unhappiness. What goes beyond that destroys him or leaves him indifferent.”
“I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence beyond human capacity – beyond as much as we are beyond a chimpanzee”
“...I long ago gave up defending humanity. It's beyond me on most days to defend myself.”