The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.
Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.
A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the “self” has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
A man of science doesn’t discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.