Ralph Barton Perry Quotes

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.