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The longing for a worthier kind of life, the aspiration for some sort of linkage or communion with Divine Power, is a sign of the transition from a purely animal consciousness to the animal-human phase of today. To be destitute of these urges quite entirely is uncommon. In the rotation of body-mind cycles--Shakespeare's "seven ages of man"--they appear or vanish briefly or durably in most persons. But because suppressions exist, substitutes often replace them.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 1 : Origin, Purpose of Religions > # 14