In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.