It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

God is not a dead equation!

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

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

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.