The utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Every philosophy is tinged with the colouring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its trains of reasoning.

The deliberate aim at Peace very easilv passes into its bastard substitute, Anaesthesia.