Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist..

Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions..

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols..

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conc….

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the ….

All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive log….

By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a de….

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again..

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good..

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by dive….

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be en….

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics..

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life..

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority..

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seekin….

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and….

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small v….

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature..

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic..

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims..

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt..