It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

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

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.