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

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

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.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

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