“Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.”

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

“We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.”

“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”

“It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”

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

“Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.”