Inertia Is The First Law Of History,

Liberalism Is An Attitude Rather Than A Set Of Dogmas - An Attitude That Insists Upon Questioning All Plausible And Self-evident Propositions, Seeking Not To Reject Them But To Find Out What Evidence There Is To Support Them Rather Than Their Possible Alternatives.

Let Philosophy Resolutely Aim To Be As Scientific As Possible, But Let Her Not Forget Her Strong Kinship With Literature.

Cruel Persecutions And Intolerance Are Not Accidents, But Grow Out Of The Very Essence Of Religion, Namely, Its Absolute Claims.

By No Amount Of Reasoning Can We Altogether Eliminate All Contingency From Our World. Moreover, Pure Speculation Alone Will Not Enable Us To Get A Determinate Picture Of The Existing World. We Must Eliminate Some Of The Conflicting Possibilities, And This Can Be Brought About Only By Experiment And Observation.

Inertia Is The First Law Of History, As It Is Of Physics.