Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

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.

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.