Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.
Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
There is no nature in an instant.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
When you’re average, you’re just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.