A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
