Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.