Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Value is coextensive with reality.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.