The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.