The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.