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.

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

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

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

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

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.