Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it

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.

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

The motive of success is not enough.