The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.