A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.