A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.