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.

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

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.

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

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

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