...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

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

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.