What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.