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

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

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

...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

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.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.