Aim of Relegion

Not the question about God, and not the origin and inquiry into the origin and the purpose of the world is religion, but the question about Man. All religious views of life are anthropocentric. Religion = that activity of the human impulse towards self-preservation by...

Healthy Minded Optimism

All invasive moral states and passionate enthusiasms make one feelingless to evil in some direction. The common penalties cease to deter the heroic patriot, the usual prudences are flung by the lover to the winds. When the passion is extreme, suffering may actually be...

Theodore Parker

“I have done wrong things enough in my life, and do them now; I miss the mark, draw the bow, and try again. But I cannot sit down and whine and groan against not-existent evil.” MARIE BASHKIRTOEFF “I enjoy weeping, I enjoy my despair; I enjoy being...

Rationalism

“If we look on man’s whole mental life as it exists, on the life of men that lies in them apart from their learning and Science, and that they inwardly and privately follow, we have to confess that the part of which “Rationalism can give an account...