In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. One in that case not merely conducts inquiry and learning without the use of the best instruments, but fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.