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.
Error is the price we pay for progress.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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 oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
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