The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

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.

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