...of twelve, when he found that the stories of the Bible could not be true, and of how he then decided that youth "is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies. . . ." It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt...

...consequence was a positive orgy of free thinking, coupled with the impression that youth is potentially being deceived by the state through lies. It was a...out of this experience. A skeptical attitude towards convictions which were alive in any specific social environment, an attitude which has never again...

...coupled with the impression that youth is potentially being deceived by the state through lies. It was n crushing impression. Suspicion against every kind...out of this experience. A skeptical attitude towards convictions which were alive in any specific social environment, an attitude which has never again...

...much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth...intentionally being deceived by the state through lies . . . Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience ... an attitude which has...

...much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively frantic [orgy] of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth...Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience....It was clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first...

...much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively frantic (orgy) or freethinking coupled with the impression that youth...kind of authority grew out of this experience.... It was clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to...

...much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic (orgy of) freethinking coupled with the impression that youth...intentionally being deceived by the state through lies. . . . Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience.... And here is the significant...

...much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth...environment—an attitude which has never again left me, even though later on, because of a better insight into the causal connections, it lost some of its...

...describing what seems to have been the formative period of his boyhood as "a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth...intentionally being deceived by the state through lies." Out of this "crushing impression" grew, he says, as though quoting Spencer, an attitude of "suspicion...

...him, as he put it in his autobiography, to the conviction that organized religious education left him "with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies." He now turned to a "positively fanatic [orgy of] free thinking," having formed a "suspicion against...