Religion (n.) is a new immediacy with reflection standing between it and the first — otherwise pagans would be truly religious and Christians not; love, too maidenly to admit any confidant but God, recognizes only religion as its equal.
Religion (n.) is the true principle of equality: one bows before God and the ethical, never before another human being.
Religion (n.) required of every individual is the thought that lets one not envy the distinguished nor be distracted at the wretched; if religion had to go in harness with genius and talent, that comfort would collapse.
Religion (n.) is the most difficult of all things though absolutely accessible to all — like water at the same place so shallow a sheep can wade it and so deep an elephant can swim.
Religion (n.) is not the first immediacy — instinct, impulse and youthfulness in which, with a little dose of spirit added, fermentation has begun.
Religion (n.) is the conviction that by God's help man is lighter than the whole world — the same faith that lets a man swim.
Religion (n.) is not so foreign to human nature that a rupture is needed to awaken it.
Religion (n.) that is the absolute for some and not for others would mean goodnight to all meaning in life.
Religion (n.) is the only power that can deliver the aesthetical out of its conflict with the ethical.
Religion (n.) is, in the common illusion, what you take up when old, so, since everyone wants to stay young, it gets postponed.
Religion (n.) went undefined by the Greek philosopher who kept asking for more time, a fine way of calling the question unanswerable; to think the delay brought him nearer an answer would be like a debt paid off by staying unpaid.