"The truth is that there is a real humility typical of our time; but it so happens that it is practically a more poiso…"

"Religious authority has often, doubtless, been oppressive or unreasonable; just as every legal system (and especially…"

"The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. W…"

"Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never me…"

"We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in d…"

"The sages, it is often said, can see no answer to the riddle of religion. But the trouble with our sages is not that …"

"There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped."

"The phrases of the street are not only forcible but subtle: for a figure of speech can often get into a crack too sma…"

"It is only with one aspect of humility that we are here concerned. Humility was largely meant as a restraint upon the…"

"It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of…"