Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

A thing is important if anyone think it important.