You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?