If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

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