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To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
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.
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.
Religion is caught, not taught.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.
Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
This is old, therefore it is goodЂќ; the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.
Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
The happy people are those who are producing something...
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
The Devil deserves zero tolerance.