What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.