Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
Depression is rage spread thin.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.