The first requisite, if we are to move away from the disturbing inequality which now prevails among us, is, once more, a change of attitude. We shall have, no doubt, to generate a new form of disgust—disgust at fortunes that are far beyond the levels of any conceivable human wants…. A maturely moral society will be one in which the very thought of large fortunes will elicit the same kind of disgust as is elicited by an act of boorishness or poor sportsmanship.  —H. A. Overstreet (1933)

The value of science lies in its generalization and relation of fact to fact by means of which the mind builds a universe of sequences and connections, applying these generalizations to the needs of life…. The scientist, indeed, has no more right to be a materialist than an idealist. Neither of the foregoing presuppositions is scientific; both are philosophical.  —Ralph Tyler Flewelling (1926)

[I]n life there are so many factors involved that mathematical enumeration is the smallest and often the least important element involved. No illustration is more apt than the time-worn example of the logics, wherein it is presumed that if one man could dig a well in ten days, ten men could dig it in one. The mathematics is, of course, perfect, but worthless as overlooking the fact that ten men would, in that kind of a task, be in each other’s way.  —Ralph Tyler Flewelling (1926)

It has been said that modern civilization could not have been built upon any such foundation as the words of Jesus. That may be true. Quite imaginably it is also true that what could be built upon his words would be a better thing than modern civilization is. —W. R. Bowie (1928)

A belief becomes a faith when it shapes the way of one’s living, when it determines what one shall live for. It is not a faith merely when it is accepted as true. A proposition accepted as true is a mere belief. The conviction or certainty is not what makes it faith. It is the way it controls the living of the believer.  —Henry Nelson Wieman (1935)

Vultures soar into the blue until they are invisible, mounting in a spiral, but never moving their wings. Their outspread wings, while motionless, are kept adjusted to the upper currents of air in such a way that they are lifted ever higher…. Prayer is adjusting the personality to God in such a way that God can work more potently for good than he otherwise could, as the outstretched wings of a bird enable the rising currents to carry it to higher levels.  —Henry Nelson Wieman and Regina Westcott-Wieman (1935)

Renunciation really taught a great life-policy, though no one was aware of it. It is the method, in its refined form, of increasing life’s fraction by lowering the denominator of demands instead of striving always to increase the numerator of satisfactions. It comes to be one of the great life-philosophies. —Sumner & Keller (1927)

Why is it a sign of philosophical ineptitude to “humanize” God but a sign of philosophical superiority to “mechanize” him?  —Edwin Lewis (1931)