No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

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

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.