"When we survey the whole field of actual experience, we find it to be a tissue of different kinds of reality."

"The absolutely initial fact of all our knowing is the fact that we are immediately conscious of a feeling of being alive."

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."

"Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be into the bargain, is the most formidable of all the beasts of prey."