The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God’s vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World’s multiplicity of effort.
The term many presupposes the term one, and the term one presupposes the term many.
Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations.
In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.