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

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

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 great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.