For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.