"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.