If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.