The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

An individual human existence should be like a river

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.