I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

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

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.