Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.