Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.