I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

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.