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Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous — reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.
Religious Perplexities (1922)
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation.
Education through Recreation (1932)
"Spirit" is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.
Near the Brink: Observations of a Nonagenarian (1952)
Are not the richest and most significant experiences of man precisely those which are the least patient of verbal reproduction?
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
Education through Recreation (1932)
Better that the nation grow poor for a cause we can honor, than grow rich for an end that is unknown.
The spirit of fellowship, with its attendant cheerfulness, is in the air.
How can the Universe tell its own story save by making use of human speech; how convey its meanings to finite minds save by employing a thinker to declare them?
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play... He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing...
Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.
BBC Radio National Lecture (1938)
We want philosophers, among other reasons, because the world is full of false philosophy.
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Philosophy has been called the search for the Permanent amid the changing.
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
The mechanical mind has a passion for control — of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.
Revolt Against Mechanism (1933)
Philosophy resembles poetry in being an art for enforcing meditation, for driving the mind inwards until it sinks into its Object.
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
In all great poetry there is a kind of “kenosis” of the understanding, a self-emptying of the tongue. Here language points away from itself to something greater than itself.
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
The human mind loves the bondage of words and is apt, when freed from one form of their tyranny, to set up another more oppressive than the last.
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Of all the media of expression employed by man (and let us never forget that they are many) none are so unstable, none so quick to change their meaning, as words.
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Thus exhibited, the object itself becomes the meeting-ground of the ages, a centre where millions of minds can enter together into possession of the common secret.
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
The spiritual men of India, a great and watchful multitude whose spiritual status is unattainable, are many of them catholics in a deeper sense than we of the West have yet given to the word ....
We are the children of an age which spends the best energies of its life in the discussion of life, in an atmosphere of deferred fulfillment, continually postponing the act of living to the work of mentally preparing to live.
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)