History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics)

In the absence of any guiding principle, politics becomes a naked struggle for power

All power is ultimately from God; He has delegated power to the Pope in sacred things and to the Emperor in secular matters.

pleasure in reasoning, analysing, and systematizing

from the seventeenth century to the present day, is dominated, more than either of its predecessors, by science;

from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries, was dominated by the Catholic Church

began in Greece in the sixth century B.C.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it

induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance, and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of very great importance

the circumstances of men's lives do much to determine their philosophy, but, conversely, their philosophy does much to determine their circumstances