 It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. |
| True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. |
| Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. |
| What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. |
| We think in generalities, but we live in detail. |
| The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. |
| I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. |
| Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. |
| The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. |
| The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. |
| Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. |
| Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. |
| Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. |
| Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. |
| Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. |
| Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. |
| Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. |
