If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

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

By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.