Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
One real world is enough.
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.
Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.
Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor’s chair.
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.