The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
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For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.