Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.