“It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.”

“Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.”

“The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.”

“A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.”

“It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”

“Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.”

“In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasoning grasps at straws for premises and float on gossamer for deductions.”