Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect from that of theory, thus making science more and more a technique, and less and less a doctrine as to the nature of the world. The penetration of this point of view to philosophers is very recent.

We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by "hard" data those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by "soft" data those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more or less doubtful.

The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.