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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

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It may be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. Some evils, indeed, are ministerial to higher forms of go...more

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In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down ...more

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Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is ...more

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All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!

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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate ...more

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It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being rel...more

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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minut...more

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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered...more

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But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geomete...more

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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to ...more

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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law...more