Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.