Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

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.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.