The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

The motive of success is not enough.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.

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