Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.

By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.