No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.