"It seems to me that many theories of the universe may be dismissed at once, not as too good, but as too cosy, to be t…"

"In the meanwhile I retire to my well-earned bath-chair, from which I shall watch with a fatherly eye the philosophic …"

"Take an eighteenth century English whig. Let him be a mystic. Endow him with the logical subtlety of the great school…"

"If Hegel be the inspired and too often incoherent prophet of the Absolute, if Bradley be its chivalrous knight, McTag…"

"It is to be feared that Spinoza would not have been enlightened enough to appreciate the beneficient system of the Ph…"

"Those who, like the present writer, never had the privilege of meeting Sidgwick can infer from his writings, and stil…"

"I understand that it is the wish of the Editor of this collection of essays that each contributor should describe his…"

"It is true that our everyday view of the world is not quite naively realistic, but that is what it would like to be. …"

"Although people cannot define existence and do use the term with some looseness, yet it is possible to give an extens…"

"Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy."