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

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?