Quotes from Joseph Alexander Leighton

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.