“I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.”

“I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.”

“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.”

“What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.”

“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. ”

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