Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure..

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights..

Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thr….

We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt..

Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we h….

What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second, it….

Art is life, plus caprice..

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop..

The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of be….

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view….

A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get….

Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ign….

This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not….

Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend….

Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious s….

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner con….

It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what….

We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction b….

Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years..

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality..

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life..