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

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.