We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.