Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

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

Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.

The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.