Value is coextensive with reality.
The motive of success is not enough.
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
Great people plant trees they’ll never sit under.
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.