A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.