Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.