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

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.