“Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present.”
“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
“the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.”
“...one of the most accurate ways to detect and measure the activity of God is to note the amount of opposition that is present.”
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.”
“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”