We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.