Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.

Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.