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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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