Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert, who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine that there is anything grand about the introvert’s unhappiness.

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

Men can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immedi-

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.