Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.