Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.