A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on n...othing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What chiefly distinguishes the daily press of the United States from the press of all other countries is not its lack of truthfuln...ess or even its lack of dignity and honor, for these deficiencies are common to the newspapers everywhere, but its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion. It is, in the true sense, never well-informed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries ...pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »