The state is the nursing mother of human culture. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Culture 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 Demand 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… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Actuality 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… — Joseph Alexander Leighton August 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… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Assuming 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… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Exclusive 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… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Affair 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… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Comprehensive Copy Share Image
Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Gods will 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… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Disinterested 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… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Birth 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… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Analysis Copy Share Image
God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Absolutes 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… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Achievement Copy Share Image
Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Devious Copy Share Image
Today one might be tempted to say that patriotism is the last refuge of the tribal religion dedicated to the worship of… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Battle Copy Share Image
Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Beyond the stars Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Clearing Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Arms Copy Share Image
No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Can do Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Doe Copy Share Image
