When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.