Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

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

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.