The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

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

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.