Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.