The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.