Science ... is organized common sense..

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well d….

Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, fa….

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely..

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason..

No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the pathway a little clearer for the genera….

The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and ….

A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In so far as any….

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might..

Today one might be tempted to say that patriotism is the last refuge of the tribal religion dedicated to the worship of German, French, English and R….

This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle and to fight for the c….

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems..

The state is the nursing mother of human culture..

If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of th….

Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In ….

The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation w….

Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the stars, he must be present in the communion….

God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such….

Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of experi….

It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine ed….

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it cease….