The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

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

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven't it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born.