Carl Van Doren

Though he knows that knowledge is imperfect, he trusts it alone. If he takes, therefore, the less delight in metaphysics, he takes the more in physics.

I perceive that the race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Whoever says he knows that immortality is a fact is merely hoping that it is.

There is no trustworthy evidence as to a god's absolute existence.

Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds …