A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

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