After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.