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

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.