Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.