It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.