Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

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

In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.