Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise.
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
The worship of God is not a rule of safety – it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
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.