Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.

Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.