 The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. |
| To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy. |
| The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. |
| Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. |
| The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. |
| Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. |
| Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. |
| The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. |
| To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. |
| If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. |
| Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. |
| Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn. |
| For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. |
| According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. |
