Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce is by the nature of things a relativist; his mind is constantly on the fluctuating values of the marketplace, and there is no surer way to fail than to dogmatize and moralize about things.

Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.

Neuter discourse is a false idol.

We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.