The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.

Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.