Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.