The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.