It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what… — 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 man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same august issues, experiences and conceptions… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share
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 in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed.… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share
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
