Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.