There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
Docility is the observable half of reason.
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise.
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.
The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.
Heaven is to be at peace with things.