Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.