Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.

There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.