... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.