An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
A student should not be taught more than he can think about.
How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
We think in generalities but we live in detail.
Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.
Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future.
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.