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

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.