Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

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

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.