What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

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

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

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