We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

When all is said and done, we are in the end absolutely dependent on the universe; and into sacrifices and surrenders of some sort, deliberately looked at and …

The sentiment of reality can indeed attach itself so strongly to our object of belief that our whole life is polarized through and through, so to speak, by its…

But such a straight identification of religion with any and every form of happiness leaves the essential peculiarity of religious happiness out. The more commo…

There are some people, nevertheless - and I am one of them - who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the univers…

Trust your doubt. Always fight for your beliefs. That is the path beyond thought.

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural w…