Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.