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

Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.