Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

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

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.