We may define “faith” as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of “faith”. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups substitute different emotions.
We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
War grows out of ordinary human nature.
Vagueness is the rebellion of truth against intellect.
Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other.
Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored.
Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
