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

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

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.

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.