Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

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

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

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.