Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.