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

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

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.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

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

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