The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

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.