Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

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

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.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.