If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

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.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.