It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.