Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science