Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.