All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.