We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.