Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
George Santayana Quotes
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out, and minutely articulated.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!
The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.
The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it… This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience.
Real unselfishness consits in sharing the interests of others.
As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
