Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of man ascends and d…

- Joseph Alexander Leighton

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

- Joseph Alexander Leighton

Science ... is organized common sense.

- Joseph Alexander Leighton

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…

- Joseph Alexander Leighton

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…

- Joseph Alexander Leighton

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

- Joseph Alexander Leighton

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

- Joseph Alexander Leighton

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…

- Joseph Alexander Leighton

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 …

- Joseph Alexander Leighton