Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay,...
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
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.
Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been...