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

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction. . . . Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.

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

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Value is coextensive with reality.

Problems are only opportunities in disquise.