Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

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

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.