It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.