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In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.
The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.