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

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.

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.

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.

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

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