Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation 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 quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.
The motive of success is not enough.
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.
The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
Value is coextensive with reality.
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
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