Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.