No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. 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.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
Seek simplicity but distrust it.
