The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature..

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order..

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

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame..

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge..

After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset..

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode o….

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious..

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio….

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered..

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas..

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth..

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable..

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..

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths..

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude..

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whol….

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery an….

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life..

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top..

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it..