If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

Faith is the path of least resistance.