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

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.