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

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

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

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.