Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.