The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.