"You never knew pain--real pain, did you? The world never ended for
you, did it?"

"In one manner or another we all must be reborn before we can
progress."

"That is a cant phrase."

"No; there's truth under the cant. Under all the sleek, smooth,
canty phrases of ecclesiastic proverb, precept, axiom, and lore,
there is truth worth the sifting out."

"You are welcome to think so, Guilder."

"You also could come to no other conclusion if you took the trouble
to investigate."

Drene smiled:

"Morals are no more than folk-ways--merely mental condition
consequent upon custom. Spiritual beliefs are radically dependant
upon folkways and the resultant physical and mental condition of the
human brain which creates everything that has been and that is to
be."

"Physiology has proven that no idea, no thought, ever originated
within the concrete and physical brain."

"I've read of those experiments."