The Business Of The Philosopher

Cruel Persecutions And Intolerance Are Not Accidents, But Grow Out Of The Very Essence Of Religion, Namely, Its Absolute Claims.

Inertia Is The First Law Of History, As It Is Of Physics.

Law Must Be Viewed As A Formless Mass Of Isolated Decisions.

A Creative Element Is Surely Present In All Great Systems, And It Does Not Seem Possible That All Sympathy Or Fundamental Attitudes Of Will Can Be Entirely Eliminated From Any Human Philosophy.

By No Amount Of Reasoning Can We Altogether Eliminate All Contingency From Our World. Moreover, Pure Speculation Alone Will Not Enable Us To Get A Determinate Picture Of The Existing World. We Must Eliminate Some Of The Conflicting Possibilities, And This Can Be Brought About Only By Experiment And Observation.