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

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

Our beliefs are really rules for action.

It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.

Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.

From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.