My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

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.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.