The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.