The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.