Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

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

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.