An Optimist Is A Person Who Sees

The Ethical Society, Therefore, Is Like A Church In Maintaining, And Emphasizing The Importance Of Maintaining The Custom Of Public Assemblies On Sunday.

The Infinite, From Which Comes The Impulse That Lead Us To Activity, Is Not The Highest Reason, But Higher Than Reason; Not The Highest Goodness, But Higher Than Goodness.

People May Be Said To Resemble Not The Bricks Of Which A House Is Built, But The Pieces Of A Picture Puzzle, Each Differing In Shape, But Matching The Rest, And Thus Bringing Out The Picture.

The Truth Which Has Made Us Free Will In The End Make Us Glad Also. Every Outcry Against The Oppression Of Some People By Other People, Or Against What Is Morally Hideous Is The Affirmation Of The Principle That A Human Being As Such Is Not To Be Violated. A Human Being Is Not To Be Handled As A Tool But Is To Be Respected And Revered.

We Should Seek To Free The Moral Life From The Embarrassments And Entanglements In Which It Has Been Involved By The Quibbles Of The Schools And The Mutual Antagonisms Of The Sects; To Introduce Into It An Element Of Downrightness And Practical Earnestness; Above All, To Secure To The Modern World, In Its Struggle With Manifold Evil, The Boon Of Moral Unity, Despite Intellectual Diversity.