Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.