It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.

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

The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.