The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

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

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.

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