Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.