Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic possession, and it was believed that demons inhabiting a madman could be driven out by inflicting pain upon him, and so making them uncomfortable. In pursuit of this opinion, lunatics were treated for years on end with systematic and conscientious brutality.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.