A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology.

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.