1. Human intellect is nature’s attempt at self-criticism.
2.
Individuals and nations die; but their children, i.e.
ideas, never die.
3.
Divine life is in touch with the whole
universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
4.
A
wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man,
and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
5.
Self-Control in individuals builds families; in
communities, it builds empires.
6.
Justice is an inestimable treasure; but we must guard
it against the thief of mercy.
7.
Government, whatever its form, is one of the determining
forces of a people’s character
8.
To explain the deepest truths of life in the form of
homely parables requires extraordinary genius.
9.
If ethics is to be an experimental science like other
sciences, it must be based on the revelations of human experience.
10.
Philosophy is the logic of right, history the logic
of might. The cannons of this later logic appear to be more
sound than those of her sister logic.
11.
Belief is a great power. When I see that a proposition of mine
is believed by another mind, my own conviction of its truth is thereby
immensely increased.
12.
Our Soul discovers itself when we come into contact with a
great mind. It is not until I had realised the Infinitude of Goethe’s
imagination that I discovered the narrow breadth of my own.
13.
You fail in your enterprise, and now you wish to leave your
home and try your luck in other climes. It is not because your
ambition has received a fresh spur from your failure; but
chiefly because you wish to hide your face from those who
have witnessed your failure
