We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitableness of destiny can only be illustrated in terms...

Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this...

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our...

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment… We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like...

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

The “silly” question is the first intimation of some totally new development

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.