Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.