To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.