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

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.