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.

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.

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

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

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

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.