The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

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.

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.