Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

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.