Det er fremtidens pligt at være farlig.
Det fuldstændige fravær af humor i Biblen hører til det mest besynderlige i litteraturen.
Det kræver en meget usædvanlig hjerne at gå i gang med at analysere det indlysende.
Søg enkeltheden og mistro den.
A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civiliztion is in full decay.
All truths are half-truths.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations, which we can perform without thinking.
It is the duty of the future to be dangerous.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
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.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
We think in generalities, we live in detail.