The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.