What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

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.

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.