The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.