A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.