Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

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

The hero can never be a relativist.

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

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.

The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane of the bourgeoisie. That kind of education does not develop the aristocratic virtues. It neither encourages reflection nor inspires reverence for the good.