The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.