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

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.