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

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

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

All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.

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.

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.

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