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I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.