The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
One real world is enough.
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.