The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

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

I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.