When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.