It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.