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

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.