It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

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

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.