The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

Liberty is always unfinished business

All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.