Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the stars, he must be present in the communion of human spirits, and, in his relation to these, he… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
