Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.