“Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.”
“Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.”
“I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.”
“the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown...”
“The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.”
“We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.”