Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.
A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Withou...
A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.
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.
There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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 bot...
The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
Every organism requires an environment of friends partly to shield it from violent changes and partly to supply it with its wants.
Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.
Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.