We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

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.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.