All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.