If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.