The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.