Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise. - George Santayana

In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy