Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.