One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

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.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.

Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.