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

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

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