We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse of universal memory, or it may be said to serve as a net, not imprisoning us but supporting us and aiding us to get at a meaning beyond present meaning through the very fact that it embodies others' experiences.

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

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.