Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

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

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.