The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

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

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.