Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

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

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.