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

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.