The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

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

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.