Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

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.

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

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.