Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one’s powers.
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.
The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.
Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else.
Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.
To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word – the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.
Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.
My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.
Columbus gave the world another world.