Matter drags us down. All things interactively connect, and as minds shape matter, matter shapes minds. Coarse matter makes mental fibers inflexible

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Man has his own inclinations and a natural will which, in his actions, by means of his free choice, he follows and directs.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend - and we cannot comprehend God - we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions - 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?