The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.