Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.