A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.