Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

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.

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.

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