Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?