The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

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

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.