I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.