To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.