You never really understand a person 

until you consider things from his point of view.

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; 

we slip through to the other side, 

and return again, 

as easily and secretly as a cat.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

The fate of our times is characterised

 by rationalisation and intellectualisation 

and, above all, 

by the disenchantment of the world.

Conventionality is not morality.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Knowledge of the past 

and of the places of the earth 

is the ornament and food 

of the mind of man.

I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, 

never fearing to follow truth and reason 

to whatever results they led, 

and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The insatiable thirst
for everything which lies beyond, 

and which life reveals, 

is the most living proof of our immortality.

The best portion of a good man's life 

is his little, nameless, unremembered acts 

of kindness and of love.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; 

and as the judgment, 

so also the conscience, 

may be erroneous.

Read as you taste fruit 

or savour wine, 

or enjoy friendship, love or life.

If you shut up truth, 

and bury it underground, 

it will but grow.

You must accept the truth 

from whatever source it comes.