It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.

An individual human existence should be like a river

The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.