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

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.