God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings. — 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
