The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.