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

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

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

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

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

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.

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.