I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.