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

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.

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

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

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