"The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in…"

"The stronghold of the determinist argument is the antipathy to the idea of chance...This notion of alternative possib…"

"Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight …"

"The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his e…"

"What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wr…"

"I think that yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second Essais and see no rea…"

"Freedom is only necessity understood."

"But even the distant reader must allow that Clifford's mental personality belonged to the highest possible type to sa…"

"All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods."

"Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bonda…"