That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.