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

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.