When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to…

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which …

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity answering a c…

'Believe only half of what you see, and nothing that you hear,' is a cynical saying, and yet less bitter than at first appears. It does not argue that human na…

I cannot imagine a man without thought; he would be a stone or an animal. (339)