No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.