The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.