Problems are only opportunities in disquise.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

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

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.