Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

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.