Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.