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.

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

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.