Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

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.

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

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.