Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.