There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
If all the arts aspire to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.