Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.