The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

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

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.